We are thrilled to announce Jamie Bell has been shortlisted in the public law category of the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards 2022. Read more...
An estimated 14 million people live in poorly maintained homes and more than a fifth of adults have reported suffering physical or mental health issues as a result of housing problems. Read more...
An NHS Trust is to pay damages to a devastated mother whose firstborn son died following a child birth delay. Read more...
Our support for the Government’s Kickstart job scheme has not only been successful for Duncan Lewis Solicitors but also for the more than two dozen young people it helped into full-time employment here. Read more...
The trust has accepted liability for the death and Duncan Lewis’ Action Against Public Authorities solicitor Courtney Smith, who successfully represented the family in the inquest into the death of their son, is now negotiating a damages claim. Read more...
The Home Office has withdrawn the Pushbacks policy, a week before the final judicial review hearing on it. Read more...
We are thrilled to announce the return of immigration director, Gabor Nagy, who originally joined the firm in 2005. Read more...
The High Court passed down an interim judgment on 13 April 2022 in three cases challenging the Home Office’s ‘pushback’ policy which details the tactical plan of the SSHD to send migrant vessels out of UK waters and back to France. Read more...
Innovation and technology and how it can be harnessed to save legal aid in the face of funding cuts was the subject of a roundtable discussion joined by our Practice Director Jason Bruce. Read more...
We are delighted to say that Satvir Sahota has earned a promotion to director within our immigration team in Luton. Read more...
We are delighted to say that Pardeep Somel has stepped up to the role of director within our Milton Keynes Immigration Department. Read more...
We are delighted to announce that Gemma Lynch has won a well-deserved promotion to the role of director within Duncan Lewis Solicitors’ City of London Immigration department. Read more...
We are delighted to announce that Genet Amare has stepped up to the role of Family and Child Care director at Duncan Lewis Solicitors after winning a well-deserved promotion. Read more...
The authority now faces being in contempt of court but does late compliance to an order mean it can escape the failure being regarded as a breach? Read more...
We are pleased to announce the recent promotion of Angela Sandhal to Director of the Leeds-based Litigation and Education Law department. Read more...
In R (Duncan Lewis) v The Director of Legal Aid Casework and the Lord Chancellor (CO/746/2022), we challenged the refusal to backdate funding for Queen’s Counsel in a claim for judicial review of the Government’s treatment of British nationals and their families who could not be evacuated from Afghanistan as part of Operation Pitting. Read more...
We are proud to reveal that Duncan Lewis Solicitors was highly commended in the Law Firm of the Year category at the prestigious LexisNexis Awards 2022. Read more...
A housing disrepair case which could have a major impact on damages claims in future disputes between landlords and tenants will be heard by the Court of Appeal this week. Read more...
A former England boxer and Duncan Lewis Solicitors’ client who we successfully represented in a lengthy battle to remain in the UK has notched up two more victories – his first professional boxing bouts. Read more...
The Court of Appeal provides welcome clarification that Articles 10, 12 and 13 of the Trafficking Convention are justiciable before the UK Courts but finds no obligation to issue leave to remain to victims of trafficking who cannot be removed from the UK. Read more...
Our public law team has been shortlisted for a top accolade at the Wales Legal Awards 2022 for their dedication to improving access to justice. Read more...
We are proud to reveal that we in the running for two top honours at the Modern Law Awards 2022. Read more...
We are thrilled to announce that public law director Ahmed Aydeed has been nominated as Partner of the Year in the Birmingham Law Society (BLS) Awards. Read more...
It is hugely frustrating when prosecutors ask for an adjournment on the day of trial but believe it or not the courts are on your side. Read more...
The National FGM Centre’s Vision is to keep children and young people safe from FGM and other harmful practices, including ending new cases of FGM by 2030. Read more...
Not Beyond Redemption recognises that imprisoning women who are better suited to community service or rehabilitation programmes, has a devastating impact on family life and creates longer term issues for society. Read more...
To mark International Women’s Day this year we are highlighting just a few of the numerous hard-working charities that we encounter in the course of our work at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors has issued a judicial review against the Secretary of State for the Home Department and her failure to provide access to in-person legal advice to women refugees in Derwentside immigration removal centre. Read more...
We are pleased to announce that we have won the Excellence in Legal Services Award at the Signature Awards (Birmingham) 2022. Read more...
We are pleased to announce that we have been shortlisted for the Excellence in Legal Services Award at the Signature Awards (Birmingham) 2022. Read more...
The Claimants are a British national and his Afghan wife and children. They were not evacuated by the UK Government in August 2021 and remain in Afghanistan where they fear for their lives on account of their connection to the UK. Read more...
Our Civil Liberties and Human Rights team assisted client to regain his leave to remain and secure significant damages. Read more...
Dedicated child care solicitor Arti Maini has been welcomed back to Duncan Lewis Solicitors’ Birmingham team with open arms. Read more...
We are pleased to announce that the firm has been shortlisted for the Law Firm of the Year and The Halsbury Award for Rule of Law Awards at this year’s LexisNexis Legal Awards. Read more...
We are delighted to announce that Darren Middleton has stepped up to the role of Director of Immigration at Duncan Lewis Solicitors after receiving a well-deserved promotion. Read more...
Public law solicitor Maria Petrova-Collins has been acknowledged by Forbes Bulgaria in the social entrepreneurship category, for her hard work on behalf of the most marginalised people in society. Read more...
We are extremely pleased to announce that Vilash Gami has been promoted to the role of Director of Immigration at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. Read more...
We are thrilled to announce that Nazia Khan has been promoted to the role of Immigration Department Director at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. Read more...
We are delighted to announce that Gergana Pentcheva has been appointed Director of Immigration at Duncan Lewis Solicitors and will be based at our City of London office, representing clients from across England and Wales. Read more...
We are delighted to announce that Claire Ryan has stepped up to the role of Director of Immigration at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors is representing the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and Care4Calais in a judicial review claim challenging the lawfulness of the Home Office’s policy of redirecting migrant boats out of UK waters and back to France (the Pushbacks Policy). Read more...
We are pleased to announce that public law solicitor Sangeetha Vairavamoorthy has been awarded the Society of Asian Lawyers’ Rising Star Award at the Asian Legal Awards 2021. Read more...
We are pleased to announce the recent appointment of Gillian Alysia de Freitas as Director of our Court of Protection department, based in our City of London office and representing clients across England and Wales. Read more...
The High Court has ruled that the Home Secretary breached the human rights of two members of the Windrush generation when she refused to recognise them as British citizens. Read more...
Our client, INO, came to the UK in 2018. He is an Ethiopian national and of Oromo ethnicity and was imprisoned and tortured in Ethiopia because of his political activism. Family members helped him to escape the country and was able to reach Libya where he was forced into modern slavery. Read more...
We are pleased to announce that our CEO Shany Gupta has been shortlisted for Business Leader of the Year at the first British Sikh Awards. Read more...
Having the bailiffs warrant suspended in less than 24 hours before the eviction date, our client and siblings now continue to reside in their property. Read more...
We are pleased to announce that family solicitor Helen Newman was ‘Highly Commended’ for the International Family Lawyer of the Year Award at the Family Law Awards. Read more...
As a result of the support that we have been providing the Royal Holloway’s Legal Advice Centre since January 2020 when the centre first opened, we have been again been awarded a Pro Bono award for “all the outstanding commitment in support of [the] Legal Advice Centre”. Read more...
In 2017 two High Court Enforcement Agents (‘HCEAs’) attended our client’s flat. The HCEAs were either employees and/or acting as agents for DCBL Limited. They attended with a film crew instructed by Channel 5, who had commissioned them to make TV programmes known under the title Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! The HCEAs attended not only to recover a debt for unpaid parking fines but to also secretly film the events on their bodycams for broadcast by Channel 5. Read more...
The Brook House Inquiry will commence public hearings on 23 November 2021.The Inquiry, unprecedented in nature, is the first public inquiry into immigration detention in the UK. It will investigate the decisions, actions and circumstances surrounding the mistreatment and abuse of detainees in Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in 2017. Read more...
We are thrilled to announce that we have been shortlisted for four awards at the LawWorks Pro Bono Awards, including the LawWorks Cymru award, family and child care solicitors Hemna Fargi and Liljana Shehaj have both been shortlisted for the Junior Lawyers Division Pro Bono award, and family and child care director Emine Mehmet has been shortlisted for the Best Contribution by an Individual award. Read more...
We are very pleased to announce the recent internal appointment of Rupinder Jagdev as Director of our family and child care department in Birmingham. Read more...
We are pleased to share that our CEO Shany Gupta was named the Business Person of the Year at Nachural’s Signature Awards 2021. Read more...
Our London based public law team has been instructed by the UN Special Rapporteur to intervene in the forthcoming Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) case of R v AAD, AAH and AAI. Read more...
We are pleased to announce that we have been included in The Times’ 200 Best Law Firms 2022 list, which compiles the best lawyers for business, public and private-client law in England and Wales. Read more...
On 28 October 2021, the Upper Tribunal quashed a Home Office decision to refuse to transfer an Afghan boy living alone in Greece to live with his uncle and grandmother in the UK. Read more...
We are delighted to announce our results in the Chambers and Partners 2022 legal directory. Read more...
"Duncan Lewis undertakes ‘fascinating and important public law cases’ and offers a very hands-on training contract. Trainees are given a ‘significant amount of responsibility and the freedom to develop [their] own work’." Read more...
We are delighted to reveal that our public law director James Packer has been Highly Commended for the Human Rights Lawyer of the Year award and public law solicitor Jeremy Bloom has won the Junior Lawyer of the Year at the 2021 Law Society Excellence Awards. Read more...
We are pleased to announce that our results in the 2022 edition of The Legal 500 sees us obtain rankings in two new areas, rise in the rankings in four areas, and retain rankings in 20 other practice areas. Read more...
We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for five awards at this year’s LexisNexis Family Law Awards. Read more...
High Court grants permission to apply for judicial review in challenge to the Home Secretary’s failure to publish guidance on the requirement to give ‘informed consent’ to withdraw from the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and the unlawful imposition of reporting conditions by the Home Secretary, after grant of High Court bail. Read more...
We are pleased to announce that the firm has been shortlisted for the UK Law Firm of the Year Award at this year’s British Legal Awards. Read more...
We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for three awards at this year’s Law Society Excellence Awards. Read more...
The SSHD refused to grant the Claimants’ discretionary leave to remain as victims of trafficking/modern slavery based on their personal circumstances. Read more...
We are pleased to announce that Duncan Lewis has opened a new serviced office hub in Croydon, Greater London located at The Lansdowne Building, Croydon, Greater London. Read more...
Duncan Lewis’ recent 2021 Equality and Diversity survey reports that across its company nationwide, 73% of its workforce is female and 50% are Black, Asian and from an Ethnic Minority. Read more...
Our embracement of the Kickstart Scheme has been a huge success and we are delighted to reveal that we have now begun to retain a number of the Kickstart participants with full time employment. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors has published its annual gender pay-gap reporting for both 2020 and 2021. Read more...
In The Queen on the Application of MS (Afghanistan) v SSHD, we brought Judicial Review proceedings, with the Claimant seeking to challenge the decision to cease his asylum support on 19 February 2020. Read more...
The Claimants are challenging the lawfulness of the Secretary of State for the Home Department’s consultation on the New Plan for Immigration which ran from 24 March to 6 May 2021 Read more...
We are pleased to announce that we have been shortlisted for two awards at this year’s Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year (LALY) awards. Read more...
High Court rules Secretary of State for the Home Department has committed ‘a colossal interference’ in the right to family life of a Windrush victim Read more...
We are thrilled to announce that we have won the award for Outstanding Firm for Diversity and Inclusion at the 2021 Chambers Europe Awards Read more...
Public law solicitor Jamie Bell is named The Times' Lawyer of the Week due to his work acting for Ahmed Lawal, a key witness to the death of his friend Oscar Okwurime in an immigration detention centre Read more...
This application for judicial review arose following the death of Oscar Lucky Okwurime on 12 September 2019 in immigration detention, in his cell at IRC Harmondsworth Read more...
High Court considered one of the grounds in the application for judicial review, the question of whether the UK authorities had taken over responsibility of examining the asylum claim pursuant to Article 17(1) Dublin by arranging and conducting his substantive asylum interview. Read more...
The Court of Appeal has today unanimously found that it was irrational for the Secretary of State for the Home Department (‘SSHD’) to not have obtained medical information about the torture claims of two vulnerable immigration detainees who were detained under immigration powers in prison Read more...
Leading national law firm Duncan Lewis Solicitors is delighted to announce that its head office will be relocating to a new office space in Sackville House, 143-149 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 6BL Read more...
RK is a Pakistani national who was a victim of forced marriage in Pakistan. She had fled to the UK as a student where she was able to get a divorce and start a new life. Read more...
This case involved an appeal to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) against a decision to deprive the Appellant of his British Citizenship on grounds of national security. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors welcomes the news that the Penally Camp used to hold asylum seekers from September 2020 is set to close on 21 March 2021. Read more...
In a landmark judgment of the High Court today, Mr Justice Swift declared that the arrangements for immigration detainees held in prisons to access immigration and asylum legal aid are unlawful. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors is instructed by the respondent wife in nullity proceedings where she seeks a declaration that the law in respect of annulment is incompatible with human rights legislation. Read more...
Case of V.C.L. and A.N. v The United Kingdom Read more...
Our client challenges the decision of the Secretary of State for Home Department (SSHD) to assess his age as being over 25 years old upon arriving in the United Kingdom to claim asylum Read more...
The Home Office has decided not to proceed with its plans to house up to 200 asylum seekers in prefabricated temporary accommodation on the site of Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre. Read more...
We are pleased to announce that Duncan Lewis has opened a new serviced office hub in Harrow, Middlesex Read more...
We are pleased to announce that Duncan Lewis has opened a new serviced office hub in Shepherd’s Bush, London Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors is supporting Family Mediation Week which It takes place from 18 to 22 January, and aims to provide answers, by sharing information about the mediation process. Read more...
Duncan Lewis’ clients, MAK and TM, fled their countries of origin due to persecution. On their way to the UK, they passed through Libya. Read more...
An update on Eritrea Focus’ legal challenge against the UK government’s funding and support to the EU Trust Fund for Africa's ‘Reconnecting Eritrea and Ethiopia through rehabilitation of the main arterial roads in Eritrea’ development project in Eritrea. Read more...
This week is “Mediation Awareness Week” and we want to make you aware of this invaluable service Duncan Lewis Solicitors now offer. Read more...